Archive for January 2009

People have been using Linden Labs’ virtual world Second Life… as a meeting space for a while, so I’m not surprised to hear that people are doing the same in PlayStation Home, Sony’s own avatar-driven online social community. What’s surprising is that, apparently, Microsoft is using Home. Yes, that would

You could easily buy your own binary clock or watch, but is that really in the spirit of such a timepiece? One could easily argue that a purchased binary watch just isn’t quite geeky enough. If you want to show your real geek cred, you’ve got to bust out some…

A week ago we posted about a sweet Wii gun mod that was modeled after an MP5. Here’s another gun mod that combines Wii and Counter-Strike. It is, in the words of it’s creator, a DESERT EAGLE WITH OFFICIAL MARKINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Modder/possible de_dust 2 regular fordelite_76 is responsible for this ill mod. The…

It can be hard to do anything… while wearing gloves, much less get directions to that new sushi place with your iPhone. Sure, you could just take off your gloves every time you need to do something, wear the fingerless variety, or just lose your “texting fingers.” But as those

Skiing may be fun, but you’ve got to go to all that trouble of wrapping yourself up like a sausage and then trudge around in snow and cold air, and that’s without considering the risk of those many broken limbs. Why go to all that effort if you can recreate…

If the basic Guitar Hero… Les Paul controllers are just too bland for your tastes, but you don’t want to shell out the change for a whole new controller when you have one that works just fine, you might try a faceplate. And if you want a faceplate that’s really

“Imagine that the audience are in their underwear.” That’s the advice some people give if you’re going to perform or speak in front of many people. Apparently the same holds true if you want to get out of a zombie-infested city. Except that the audience are zombies, and that they…

When I get my own house, I’d like to have a couple of game rooms in it. A game room with a projector for playing PES or Rock Band or NBA 2k15, and another smaller game room for playing RPGs. Dream, dream, dreee-eam, dreee-ee-eeam…. That’s why I envy

So I picked up an HP TouchSmart IQ815 touchscreen computer over the holidays, and discovered something really cool. You can actually use the oversize screen of the TouchSmart PC as a canvas using real paint brushes.

See, the TouchSmart doesn’t actually detect pressure, but uses NextWindow’s infrared optical sensor technology…

Miss the classic 8-bit sounds of the Commodore 64? Well thanks to this new app for the iPhone and iPod Touch, you can listen to all of your favorite retro sounds all over again.

Software Engineer Michael Lauer recently released SID Player, which emulates the 6581 SID audio circuit from…